1. (a) Purpose. This subchapter contains the director's rules governing the taking of a biological sample from certain eligible individuals by an agency in order to populate the DPS DNA database.

2. (b) Applicability. The general law and rules governing CODIS apply to this subchapter except as otherwise provided by this subchapter.

   1. (1) This subchapter applies to a DNA sample taken from an eligible individual for an offense covered by this subchapter.

   2. (2) This subchapter does not apply to:

      1. (A) a standard DNA sample or record maintained by the director under Subchapters A through G of this chapter; or
      2. (B) a suspect reference sample that is not a voluntary sample described by §28.123(7) of this title (relating to Eligible Individual).

Source Note:The provisions of this §28.122 adopted to be effective June 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 4437.